1924

Events

   * January 21 - Vladimir Lenin dies and Joseph Stalin begins to purge his
     rivals to clear way for his leadership.
   * January 22 - Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
   * January 24 - St. Petersburg, Russia is renamed Leningrad
   * January 25 - The first Winter Olympic Games are inaugurated (Chamonix
     in the French Alps)
   * February 5 - GMT: Hourly time signals from Greenwich Observatory are
     broadcasted for the first time.
   * February 8 - Death penalty: The first state execution using gas in the
     United States takes place in Nevada.
   * February 12 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United
     States to deliver a political speech on radio.
   * February 14 - IBM corporation founded.
   * April 1 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his
     participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch." However he was only in jail
     for nine months.
   * May 21 - University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan
     Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing."
   * February 22 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United
     States to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
   * March 3 - Caliph Abdul Mejid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The
     last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of
     President Kemal AtatŸrk.
   * March 9 - Italy annexes Fiume
   * March 25 - Greece proclaims it is a republic.
   * May 10 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head the Federal Bureau of
     Investigation.
   * June 16 - Whampoa Military Academy is founded
   * October 2 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the
     League of Nations.
   * November - Calvin Coolidge defeats John W. Davis in the U.S.
     presidential election
   * December 24 - Albania becomes a republic
   * December 30 - Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.

   * Andre Breton founds surrealism, defining it as "pure psychic
     automatism"

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1924 in film
        o Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) considers making a silent film of The
          Wizard of Oz. MGM and Frank J. Baum failed to come to an agreement
          so the rights were sold to Chadwick Pictures.
   * 1924 in music
        o "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin
   * 1924 in sports
        o February 17 - In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new
          world record in the 100-yard freestyle swimming competition with a
          time of 52-2/5 seconds.
   * February 24 - Johnny Weissmuller finishes the 100-meter swimming event
     in 57 2/5 seconds breaking the world record.
        o Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France

Births

   * January 3 - Hank Stram, American football coach, broadcaster
   * January 6 - Earl Scruggs, bluegrass performer
   * February 3 - Andrzej Szczypiorski, writer (+ 2000)
   * January 11 - Slim Harpo, musician
   * January 12 - Olivier Gendebien, race car driver (+ 1998)
   * January 16 - Katy Jurado, actress (+ 2002)
   * January 21 - Telly Savalas, actor (+ 1994)
   * January 27 - Sabu, actor (+ 1963)
   * January 29 - Luigi Nono, composer (+ 1990)
   * January 30 - Lloyd Alexander, writer
   * February 11 - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian
   * February 17 - Margaret Truman, novelist, daughter of President Harry S
     Truman
   * February 19 - Lee Marvin, actor (+ 1987)
   * February 20 - Gloria Vanderbilt, cosmetics entrepreneur
   * February 21 - Robert Mugabe First Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
   * February 29 - Al Rosen, baseball player
   * March 27 - Sarah Vaughan, singer (+ 1990)
   * March 28 - Freddie Bartholomew, actor (+ 1992)
   * April 3 - Doris Day, actress
   * April 3 - Marlon Brando, actor
   * April 7 - Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer
   * April 24 - Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality and
     politician
   * May 12 - Tony Hancock, comedian (+ 1968)
   * May 17 - Hannes Messemer, actor (+ 1991)
   * May 19 - Sandy Wilson, British composer
   * May 22 - Charles Aznavour, singer, actor, composer
   * July 4 - Eva Marie Saint, actress: North by Northwest, On the
     Waterfront
   * September 22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, Novellist
   * November 20 - Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician
   * December 2 - Alexander M. Haig, Jr., US politician

Deaths

   * January 21 - Vladimir Lenin, first leader of the USSR
   * February 3 - Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States
   * June 11 - ThŽodore Dubois, composer and teacher
   * July 27 - Ferruccio Busoni, pianist and composer
   * November 29 - Giacomo Puccini - Italian great opera composer

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
   * Chemistry - not awarded
   * Medicine - Willem Einthoven
   * Literature - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
   * Peace - Not awarded.

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